I agree with practically all of this, save describing the effect size of current treatments as “generally modest”, which to my mind is being too generous. Only distinguishable from background noise through epidemiological studies of patient populations.

There is absolutely no evidence that you can do anything to slow the progression of AD. None whatsoever. Exercise doesn’t help. Brain games don’t help. Going ketogenic makes fuck all difference.

If you ask on what basis I say this: my mother-in-law was diagnosed with MCI which developed into moderate AD (although it was cancer that killed her in the end). I am lucky to have a dear friend who is one of the most senior UK dementia physicians in the country. He was blunt when she was diagnosed. The best treatment we have produces a sub-clinical improvement in a single AD symptom, memory loss, but does not help with any others. And what does sub-clinical mean? It means that if you take these drugs at aged 75, by the time you get to age 80, your memory loss will the same as someone who was untreated was at 79.5. That’s detectable through memory tests but is not a functional improvement.

Don’t give yourself or others false hope. If someone you love is diagnosed with AD, enjoy your time with them as much as possible, get support and care as best you can, and don’t immiserate them or yourselves by forcing someone who is already losing emotional affect to eat a fucking keto diet and do fucking wordsearches.

If you could call it thinking, maybe.

More likely this is posing and nothing else.

If it is something else, it's a threat, solicitation for bribes, or both

Iovine, the music executive and Dr. Dre's partner in Beats by Dre, [ ... ]

...Yeah, thought so.

Sony MDR-V6 forever, dudes...

Beat feet, give food

They can't do that until they finish destroying the ACA

Given the price increases on the former and the price drops on the latter, soon it might be feasible

You ignored vulture capitalists buying the starter homes and the Airbnb epidemic

There are people starving on the streets NOW

This is, of course, capitalism-worshiping nonsense. Corporations are legal fictions. Having bought one, you have become the owner of the entire fiction, including the name. They are SCO now in every sense that matters, and I say that as someone who used to run SCO software and who knows several former SCO employees. That SCO is dead, hopefully this SCO can also die soon, but they are legally the same SCO.

False. As a hosting provider Microsoft doesn't care what OS people are using, they just have to host it. But as an OS provider, Linux is still competition, so they still have a reason to attack it.

It's a crap argument anyway because the point was to keep Linux from becoming relevant on the desktop.

There's also just the general fact that they don't softball shit. If something is anti-consumer they say so. It just so happens that everything Nvidia does these days is anti-consumer. Remember when they were the underdog? Those were good days because they were trying hard.

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